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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Age: 62 †
Born: 1889
Born: April 26
Died: 1951
Died: April 29
Aphorist
Architectural Theoretician
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Logician
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Philosopher
Philosopher Of Language
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Vienna
Austria
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Philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday
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I did not get my picture of the world by satisfying myself of its correctness nor do I have it because I am satisfied of its correctness. No: it is the inherited background against which I distinguish between true and false.
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Words are probes. Some reach very deep, some only to a little depth.
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I'm doing philosophy like an old woman, first I'm looking for my pencil, then I'm looking for my glasses, then I'm looking for my pencil again.
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The face is the soul of the body.
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One can defend common sense against the attacks of philosophers only by solving their puzzles, i.e., by curing them of the temptation to attack common sense.
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Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations.
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A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.
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A proposition is completely logically analyzed if its grammar is made completely clear: no matter what idiom it may be written or expressed in.
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One is unable to notice something because it is always before one's eyes.
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The eternal life is given to those who live in the present.
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All mathematics is tautology.
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A logical picture of facts is a thought.
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One must always be prepared to learn something totally new.
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Don't ask what it means, but rather how it is used.
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There is such a thing as the impression of luminosity.
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Think of words as instruments characterized by their use, and then think of the use of a hammer, the use of a chisel, the use of a square, of a glue pot, and of the glue.
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What is thinkable is also possible.
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Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.
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A main cause of philosophical disease-an unbalanced diet: one nourishes one's thinking with only one kind of example.
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